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We review the Model Law Commission Report 2019 and discover the views of intelligent and dedicated school pupils on how the law of the land should be improved. … Continue reading about The Model Law Commission: a Big Voice for London students
Law reporter Matthew Brotherton takes a trip down Jackanapes Lane, subject of an Act of Parliament promoted by his ancestor, Thomas Brotherton MP, exactly 320 years ago today, and comments on how in law the past is always with us … Continue reading about The law and the morphing of past into present
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary featuring, inter alia, a refugee bride, criminal voyeurism, illegal surveillance, and barristerial defamation.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 10 February 2020
David Burrows considers the legality of court rules that frustrate the common law on open justice and proposes a more transparent approach to hearings concerning domestic abuse… Continue reading about Agenda for a law on open justice in family courts
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary takes us from Brexit to Future Wellbeing, two awful events in London, a massive case of corruption, a little learning and some recent legal viewing.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 3 February 2020
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes quite a lot about transparency, open justice and closed courts, as well as crimes at home and abroad and the harnessing of technology to fight it. But first we would like to wish all our readers a very healthy, happy and prosperous Lunar New Year (Gong Hei Fat Choy!)… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 27 January 2020
Paul Magrath tries out the Pepper v Hart service enabling research of parliamentary papers provided by Public Information Online. … Continue reading about Review: Pepper v Hart and Public Information Online
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes cameras in court (again), employment winners and losers, and tales of injustice in foreign parts.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 20 January 2020
Paul Magrath on how two cases in the Court of Common Pleas inspired the fictional school scenes in Nicholas Nickleby, and the consequences of Dickens’s novel for the real school and its head. … Continue reading about Book review: Nicholas Nickleby and the Yorkshire Schools – fact v fiction, by Robert J Kirkpatrick
As the new law term begins, we welcome our readers back with our first roundup of the legal year, catching up with legal news and commentary over the holiday break.… Continue reading about Weekly Notes: legal news from ICLR, 13 January 2020
